John 15:12-16.
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I love you. Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not say henceforth that you are servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing. But unto you I have said that ye are friends: for all things whatsoever I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and have appointed that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that, if ye shall ask the Father in my name, he may give it you.